Sony on Xbox 360 exclusive DLC: “nothing is ever exclusive”

Microsoft‘s been really busy rounding up exclusive DLC. First there was Grand Theft Auto IV, then Fallout 3, then Tomb Raider: Underworld. What does Sony have to say about it?

“Nothing is ever exclusive.”

How cryptic. What do you guys think? Will Sony try to bag these exclusive DLC as well? Will GTA4 for the PS3 get some DLC lovin?

Microsoft‘s been really busy rounding up exclusive DLC. First there was Grand Theft Auto IV, then Fallout 3, then Tomb Raider: Underworld. Kinda makes you wonder if Sony‘s not doing enough to give their gamers some lovin.

Sony UK managing director Ray Maguire has something to say about that though:

One thing to remember, nothing is ever exclusive. Things get wrapped up for a period of time for a large amount of money and if it’s a strategic decision by competition to do that then we have to live with that.

How cryptic. What do you guys think? Is Maguire hinting at something here? Will we see the DLC Microsoft bagged hit the PS3 in the future? I’d be happy with just the GTA4 DLC.

After all, that’s what happened with BioShock. Because of their exclusivity deal with Microsoft, even talks of a PS3 version was taboo for 2K Games. But once the exclusivity period was over, badda bing, badda boom. No reason to see why this isn’t true for DLC as well.

Maguire isn’t through talking though. Of course, he couldn’t let slide an opportunity to poke at Microsoft’s exclusive DLC strategy:

Obviously, what we have to do is make sure […] we have the amount of money to invest in games rather than investing in stopping other people making games and progressing.

So I would much rather that we were investing money into making sure that we’ve got great R&D and we start producing games like LittleBigPlanet, rather than paying other people a huge amount of money to stop people playing their product.

Ouch.

Via VideoGamer